As we work to bring even more value to our audience, we’ve made important changes for those who receive Ad Age with our compliments. As of November 15, 2016 we will no longer be offering full digital access to AdAge.com. However, we will continue to send you our industry-leading print issues focused on providing you with what you need to know to succeed.

If you’d like to continue your unlimited access to AdAge.com, we invite you to become a paid subscriber. Get the news, insights and tools that help you stay on top of what’s next.

In unusual hourlong telephone arguments, Publicis asserted that the Delaware Chancery Court chancellor was in error in deciding Publicis had ceded its right to act. The Supreme Court indicated it would act Dec. 29 on whether to grant Publicis' request to reverse the decision and delay the stockholder meeting.

Publicis, which was left with 18.5% of True North stock after its combination with True North fell through, has been trying to prevent True North from acquiring Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt at the Dec. 30 stockholder meeting in Chicago.

Delaware Chancery Chancellor William Chandler III on Dec. 23 said that while Publicis could vote its own shares against the acquisition, in the negotiations that led to the unwinding of the planned combination, Publicis had agreed to otherwise support True North's planned acquisitions.

In testimony Dec. 22, Publicis President Maurice Levy argued that he had agreed only to provide required accounting information if True North sought to acquire another agency, while True North argued that Publicis had agreed to support acquisition of other agencies.